I added this film to my list as an idea because of Steve Coogan, as he is a favourite British comedy actor.
I am interested to look at his film career, especially now he seems to be making some kind of name for himself on the other side of the pond.
In Hot Air Steve Coogan is Lionel Macomb a talk show megalith, a self opinionated self appointed voice of conservative America. For conservative equate neo-fascist, certainly on this left bank of the pond.
Lionel Macomb represents the atypical American republican who love to crow how they won their war against British monarchy, while wishing desperately to emulate them wanting to live like royalty as the kings in their own private and secluded castles.
Americans are not supposed to understand the meaning of irony, yet I find this aspect of Americanism especially ironic. Allegedly Benedict Arnold is one of the most hated of American historical figures because he changed sides in their war of independence, but at at least he was not a hypocrite no he was an honest and not a closet royalist.
Off my soapbox and back to the movie which is Not the Lionel Macomb show, his happiness is spoiled with the arrival of his niece Tess. He is made particularly uncomfortable around her, because he's not used to having his views and opinions questioned let alone challenged. An extra ingredient is that Tess still believes and has faith in her mum, a woman from Lionel Macomb's past that he desperately needs to keep buried there.
Watching this film progress I suspected a subtext and that it may turn out akin to a modern day remake of a Christmas Carol, with Lionel Macomb morphing from Scrooge past into future. And what do you know, was I right in my surmise? He certainly appeared to have at least started on the road, to his own personal Damascus by the end. There's something that a lot of yanks seem keen to cling onto, and that is religious symbolism or humbug.
I am interested to look at his film career, especially now he seems to be making some kind of name for himself on the other side of the pond.
In Hot Air Steve Coogan is Lionel Macomb a talk show megalith, a self opinionated self appointed voice of conservative America. For conservative equate neo-fascist, certainly on this left bank of the pond.
Lionel Macomb represents the atypical American republican who love to crow how they won their war against British monarchy, while wishing desperately to emulate them wanting to live like royalty as the kings in their own private and secluded castles.
Americans are not supposed to understand the meaning of irony, yet I find this aspect of Americanism especially ironic. Allegedly Benedict Arnold is one of the most hated of American historical figures because he changed sides in their war of independence, but at at least he was not a hypocrite no he was an honest and not a closet royalist.
Off my soapbox and back to the movie which is Not the Lionel Macomb show, his happiness is spoiled with the arrival of his niece Tess. He is made particularly uncomfortable around her, because he's not used to having his views and opinions questioned let alone challenged. An extra ingredient is that Tess still believes and has faith in her mum, a woman from Lionel Macomb's past that he desperately needs to keep buried there.
Watching this film progress I suspected a subtext and that it may turn out akin to a modern day remake of a Christmas Carol, with Lionel Macomb morphing from Scrooge past into future. And what do you know, was I right in my surmise? He certainly appeared to have at least started on the road, to his own personal Damascus by the end. There's something that a lot of yanks seem keen to cling onto, and that is religious symbolism or humbug.